Bitcoin Design Newsletter #52

Nov 15, 2023

We have a community call today at 15:00 UTC to discuss the newly founded Bitcoin Design Foundation, whose goal it is to help make the community sustainable long-term. Join us, whether you’re considering working as a designer in the ecosystem, are interested in donating, or just curious. We also set up a new #foundation channel to chat.
Join the design review call tomorrow (Nov 15) for 10101 Finance, and the BOLT12 UX Jam session on Friday.
The research group had a call about evaluating and documenting the user interviews done for Bitcoin Core.
We applied for a talk at FOSS Backstage to share and discuss how the community supports open design in the bitcoin ecosystem.

In the last jam session, we covered ongoing work around backup solutions with descriptors, user flows for miniscript-based recovery paths, multi-wallet design considerations and more. The next session is on Monday, November 20.
The new code resources page is live, listing code libraries based on the guide and UI Kit.
The new multi-wallet management page PR is awaiting more reviews. Share your feedback.
In draft mode are an early version of a reference design for custom spending conditions, and the final Wallet Scrutiny case study page. Not ready for review, but ready to peek in.
There’s a discussion around how the bitcoin backups page can be improved. Chime in here.
Looking to flex your creative muscles? We have a few open issues (one, two, three) to create header images for pages.

The BOLT12 website project is back in action. Share your thoughts on visual direction and content in the #bolt12 channel.
Plebpoet is working on the Geyser fund case study. Drop in comments to the write up.
What are reasons to ban peer connections to your node? The Bitcoin Core App team is wondering.
The Saving Satoshi team completed chapter 4 and is looking for coders to test and provide feedback.
Coinbits is looking to understand how people use and think about bitcoin. Fill out their survey.

Who is bitcoin? Just in case you were wondering, the team over at Spiral came up with this fun video campaign. Chat about it in Discord.
The crew over at Wallet Scrutiny have been doing live Twitter spaces. Follow them on twitter to see when the next one is happening.
A Bit of Design is a great talk by Erik on usability and design in bitcoin.
Talk recordings from various recent conferences are now available, including Legends of Lightning, Nostrasia, Adopting Bitcoin, Bitcoin Amsterdam, and Pacific Bitcoin.
Bitshala has a call on November 23 for learning about and discussing Coinswaps.
Eagle Sats mashes up email lists, advertising and lightning in an interesting way. Discuss in #merchants.
The bitcoin symbol as we know it today was launched about 13 years ago on November 1. See bitcoin.holidays for other milestone dates.
In #opportunities:
- A bitcoin-only start-up is looking for a brand/marketing/visual designer.
- Wallet Scrutiny is looking for someone to help develop a nostr-based community rating system.
- Foundation is looking for a digital product designer.
- SHA is looking for a physical product designer.
- Swan is looking for a content marketing manager.

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